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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

ABC Sunday was on the upswing, thanks mostly to a huge lead-in from the World Cup Final in the late afternoon. This effect was evident in the huge 0.6 spike week-to-week from America's Funniest Home Videos at 7:00, and it got smaller as the night wore on with Wipeout (up 0.3, but still hitting its highest rating in the last two summers)and Rising Star (up 0.1).

CBS got another very good Big Brother result, up 0.3 week-to-week and slightly up vs. the same week last year. The Unforgettable/Reckless switch put two tenths intoUnforgettable and took one fromReckless, a trade-off that CBS will happily take.

On cable:

FX dove into a crowded Sunday fray that it's generally avoided in recent years, and it had a good start with new vampire drama The Strain (1.2). This tied TNT's The Last Ship as the biggest scripted premiere on cable this summer and was a fair bit stronger than recent FX premieres like The Bridge (0.9), Fargo (0.8) and Tyrant (0.6).

Elsewhere, The Last Ship (1.0) stayed in the ones for a fourth straight week. And Lifetime's Devious Maids (0.8) finished out a largely rough sophomore season with a new season high; it may have helped its renewal case in the last couple weeks.

FULL TABLE:

Info

Show

Timeslot

True

A18-49

Skew

Last

LeLa

Rank

y2y

TLa

Ty2y

America's Funniest Home Videos (R)

1.5

30%

+67%

+67%

1.9

Wipeout

1.4

37%

+27%

+0.3

+0.6

1/4

+40%

+27%

+22%

1.7

Rising Star

1.3

35%

+8%

+0.1

+0.3

2/4

n/a

+0%

+18%

1.6

Castle (R)

0.8

29%

-33%

+23%

1.1

ABC:

+10%

+30%

60 Minutes (R)

1.0

16%

+5%

+33%

1.3

Big Brother Sun

2.2

42%

+16%

+0.3

+0.0

1/3

+5%

+16%

+26%

2.8

Unforgettable

0.9

19%

+29%

+0.2

+1.6

1/3

n/a

+50%

-33%

1.3

Reckless

0.5

16%

-17%

-0.1

-1.0

3/3

n/a

-33%

-23%

0.7

CBS:

+10%

+2%

American Ninja Warrior (R)

0.6

33%

-4%

-33%

0.7

Law and Order: SVU (R)

0.6

34%

-20%

-8%

0.9

Law and Order: SVU (R)

0.8

34%

+23%

+60%

1.2

NBC:

-2%

-23%

Brain Games

0.5

43%

n/a

-9%

-44%

0.6

The Simpsons (R)

0.8

49%

+0%

-33%

1.1

The Simpsons (R)

1.0

53%

-9%

+0%

1.4

Family Guy (R)

1.2

61%

+0%

-20%

1.6

American Dad! (R)

0.9

54%

-18%

-36%

1.2

Fox:

-8%

-29%

Big4:

+5%

-5%

True Blood

1.71

67%

-0%

-0.00

3/4

-25%

The Strain

1.18

50%

n/a

n/a

1/1

n/a

The Last Ship

1.02

28%

+2%

+0.02

3/4

n/a

Devious Maids

0.79

45%

+16%

+0.11

1/13

-30%

Falling Skies

0.79

36%

-2%

-0.02

3/4

-28%

The Leftovers

0.66

61%

-9%

-0.06

3/3

n/a

Witches of East End

0.55

47%

-10%

-0.06

8/11

n/a

Ray Donovan

0.37

39%

n/a

n/a

1/1

-21%

Masters of Sex

0.32

50%

n/a

n/a

1/1

-14%

Halt and Catch Fire

0.26

n/a

+8%

+0.02

3/7

n/a

Salem

0.18

n/a

+38%

+0.05

6/13

n/a

KEY (click to expand)

A18-49 - Adults 18-49 rating. Percentage of US TV-owning adults 18-49 watching the program.Skew - Percentage of adults 18-49 within the show's total viewership.Last - A18-49 difference (percent and numerical) from the show's previous episode.LeLa - A18-49 difference between the show's lead-in and its lead-in for the previous episode.Rank - The A18-49 rating's rank among the show's episodes so far this season.y2y - Percent difference between A18-49 and the show's rating a year ago.TLa - Percent difference between A18-49 and the network's rating in the timeslot one week ago.Ty2y - Percent difference between A18-49 and the network's rating in the timeslot one year ago.True - A metric that adjusts the A18-49 rating for overall viewing levels, competition and lead-in. PRELIMINARY CALCULATION. For finals, see SpotVault.

9 comments:

I'm surprised that ABC didn't have a 2 hour Wipeout here instead of wasting the World Cup lead-in on an AFV rerun. Either way, Wipeout is making a strong case for another season by staying even year to year against Big Brother.

Had FIFA scheduled the World Cup Final game closer to primetime in the US, perhaps ABC would have slotted the premiere of Rising Star on July 13 to directly follow it. And since the affiliates were already running national programming, it probably would not have been an issue preempting shows; the west coast primetime proper feeds could have been reruns (which would have lead to funny adjustments in final nationals).

Thanks for that information, it helps a lot. It's a shame it didn't do better, but at least it got renewed. I can't seem to find the May 11, May 18 and June 1 A18-49s either, only the viewers. I'm guessing 0.2 for them all?